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If your'e into Trams there's Bendigo & Ballarat in Victoria and Brisbane & Rockhampton in Qld, Aust. You probably won't get to Tasmania but there are a few tourist rail journeys down here (no regular passenger rail)- Don River Railway & West Coast Wilderness Railway have steamers. I conduct on...

thanks cav, seems the ones I rode on in London were the Wickham type. Every Saturday to the ABC cinema :D

Used to ride these back in 1964/5 - are many preserved as I would like to ride one again just for nostalgia. What is the right name for these ? Can't find any photos of these early ones on the net, only the later versions.

I approve ! Is that an (open) bar at the back ?, maybe not in Riyadh but I'd put one there in my country. I'm not surprised they built that berm in Slivenec, both people & dogs cringe when my tram screeches around a certain curve.:{

Just found this from a tram game. Game has 3 trams a basic modern one, a PCC & this. Game blurb says trams can't go backwards - all my museum's trams are double-ended. Presume they give you a turntable or you have to loop. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2546690/Tram_Simulator_Urban_Transit/

Most trams seem to conform to a fairly "standard" style, either vintage or modern (very square or rounded). What exotic styles have there been ? Found these ... first is the Russian BAT tram prototype, but I do like the art-deco NewYork Stepless which ran in Brisbane, Australia.

"Are there any ‘Easy Win’ electrification projects that are worth looking at?" The short answer is NO! Our Museum (in Oz) is looking at electrifying our tram (currently has a diesel gen.set on a towed trolley)-- £25,000 per tram for batteries, onboard wiring & will need to modify our c.1910...

Broadcast TV is has been obsolete for a few years. I only watch live tv as my set can't access streaming etc. In my country (not UK or EU) most TV programs are American or have copied American styles - therefore mindless crap for the uneducated. I download some programs from YouTube on my...

Cash is certainly declining - I & friends only carry a few coins for parking meters & most of those are slated for conversion to paying via your smartphone.

We had the same problem with our trams in the 1930s & 40s - one man broke his leg getting off which required amputation & an 8yr old girl died after slipping off the running board before the tram had stopped. We still have problems with young boys thinking its fun to touch the moving tram as it...

It was so long ago :frown:, I forgot that I'd been on the the Lynton & Lynmouth water-powered Funicular Railway, also the "tram" inside the Jungfrau in Switzerland.

Not many tramways where I've been, except Europe. Did ride the big Dreadnaught type in Brisbane, Australia in 1965 when they were in service & again in 2003 at the tram museum when I lived there. I currently ride a bogie-tram at our local museum in Tasmania, Australia twice a week as...

thanks for those links. I assume it was the Piccadilly Line as the train was the "4.19½, p.m. train from Ealing to Mansion House, due at Earls Court Station at 4.37 p.m. in No.2 road" (from the guard's testimony at the Inquest). Carriages were, I was led to believe, slam-door types on this...

My Grandfather was the last person killed on the Tube before carriages with automatic doors were put in service. Planning to visit the site at Earls Court next year. Can anyone direct me to pictures of the electric Tube trains & carriages in use in 1935 & the automatic-door carriages that...

that's good to hear, I rode several slam doors when last in UK (2000). Pity they don't still use the horse-hair stuffed seats tho - they were very comfy on long trips. What about train-surfers - quite a few in my country - becoming a real problem ..... maybe give the train a quick spray of...